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B. L. BREWER.

MAGAZINE FIRE ARM.

No. 307,263. PatentedO t. 28, 1884.

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ROLAND L. BBEVVER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO COLTS PATENT FIRE ARMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MAGAZINE FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,263, dated October 28, 1884.

Application filed May 5, 1854.

T0 at whom, it may concern;-

Be it known that I, ROLAND L. BREWER, of

Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improve ments in Magazine Fire-Arms; and I do,hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a sectional side View; Fig. 2, a vertieal section on line or :r, enlarged; Fig. 3, a vertical section on line y y, enlarged. 4

This invention. relates to an improvement in that class of magazine firearms in which the mechanism of the arm is operated by a slide or handle beneath the barrel, and which is arranged to be moved forward or backward by hand, and so that in such backward and forward movement the mechanism of the arm is operated to open the breech-piece, present a cartridge to the barrel, and close the breechpiece, the object of the invention being to pro vide a support for the handle independent of the magazine-tube; and the invention consists in constructing the handle with an arm extending forward into aband-like support, and

through which the arm will play freely in the longitudinal movement of the handle, the handle having an extension at the rear into connection with the mechanism, as in arms of like character, all as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the barrel; B, the magazine tube; C, the frame, to which they are attached in the usual ma-nner.

As the mechanism whereby the breechpiece, carrier, and hammer are operated is immaterial to the invention, and may be such as found in arms having a slide arranged to move parallel with. the barrel, and by which such mechanism may be operated, I do not deem it necessary to show or describe in detail such mechanism. I illustrate only so much of the arm as will show the couneetion between the handle and the mechanism.

D is the handle. This may be in the form of a partial tube open at the top, as seen in Fig. 2, and so as to surround the magazinetube. From the .rear end of the handle a bar or arm, E, extends into connection with the (N0 model.)

I mechanism of the arm, as seen in Fig. 1. At

a point forward of the handle, and distant therefrom greater than the extreme movement of the handle, is a band, F. This band surrounds the barrel aud magazine, as shown, and extends below the magazine, as at G, and

is constructed to receive an arm, II, which eX- teuds forward from the handle, and so as to work freely through a corresponding opening in the band, as at G. This armH and the opening in the band forma guide for the movemeut of the handle from its forward position seen in Fig. 1 to its rear position seen in broken. lines, same figure. This bearing or support forward of the handle relieves the l handle from any direct connection with the magazine tube or barrel, it being guided substantially independent of both, and the maga- 7o zinetube and barrel are both of usual construction. The handle may be covered with i wood, as indicated at I, Fig. 2, and form sub- ,stantially a continuation of the stock, or it may be made entirely of metal. In some of i this class of arms the handle moves rearward to open and forward to close, and in others forward to open and rearward to close. In either case the same forward guide, G, is cur ployed in the same relation to the handle.

, It will be understood from the foregoing that I do not claim, broadly, a magazine firearm in which the mechanism is operated by a handle forward of the receiver, and an ranged to slide parallel with the barrel and independent of the magazine, as such, I am aware, 1s not new.

I claim 1 Theherein-described improvement in maga- I zine firearms, consisting in the combination 1 of the mechanism of the arm, a handle forward of the receiver, arranged to slide longil tudinally substantially parallel with the barrel and in connection with said mechanism,

[a guide forward of the handle, with which l the handle is engaged, and whereby the handle is supported and guided. in its reciprocating movement in operating the mechanism of the arm, substantially as described.

R. L. BREWER.

IVitnesses:

HORACE LORD, ALEXANDER K. MoConKnLL. 

